freshflowers

> I have never seen any evidence that the WMF has been following standard software engineering principles that were well-known when Mythical Man-Month was was first published in 1975. If they had, we would be seeing things like requirements documents and schedules with measurable milestones.

This person appears to be completely ignorant of the changes in software engineering since, let's say, the mid 90s. (Which kind of discredits everything else he writes.)

However, he's introduced as "He runs a consulting business, rescuing engineering projects that have gone seriously wrong."

So basically this is just a consultant's sales pitch.

All that matters is having a good conversation and not appearing completely incompetent.

After an enjoyable conversation, the hiring person will rationalize wanting you all by themselves, even if they have to make up / project qualities you've never demonstrated.

95% of the time, there's nothing rational about hiring.

Gee, and there was me thinking that the rise of Trump had put an end to the argument that these types of unethical behaviour are not symptoms of the same problem.

Defending a lack of ethics with ideology is a nothing more than a cheap trick. And I'm not falling for it anymore.

> now that the tables have turned, women might need to make a compromise

Most of us here on HN work in the tech industry, with its notorious sexism and underrepresentation problems. So let's get real here.

To claim that the tables have turned reeks of the same claim to victimhood that the straight white christian men that voted for Trump use to justify their crap.

You claim you don't want to right the "whole mensright bandwagon", but you're already on it.

The tables aren't even close to having been turned, the disappearance of many jobs that men continued to claim for themselves until they stopped existing is just a coincidence.

Suggestion to stop using the same fucking stock images with the same fucking benches everybody else is using to symbolize "cool company".

Whatever sincere doubts and supposed nuances may have lead YC to continue to tolerate Thiel's presence before Trump took power, there can be no more doubts today.

An organization that associates itself with both the ACLU and a fascist regime lacks any kind of credibility. This reeks of PR driven opportunism.

The latter has to do with the fact that those cups have a very different purpose, which is why the solo cups are marketed as "American party cups". The "American" refers to the format of the party as much as the cups.

At normal parties in the Netherlands we just drink beer from bottles because we have an entirely different beer and alcohol culture, without the whole age limit BS (despite recent legal changes raising the purchase age to 18).

With the exception of the transparant hard plastic cups used is stadiums and at festivals, we tend to not drink our alcohol from plastic cups.

Politics isn't some isolated thing. Politics is about everything we do and say. A techie elite deciding what they do isn't political, or worse, beyond politics, is part of what got us to this point in the first place.

> HN is a garden, politics is war by other means

Denial, denial, denial. This is like the arms dealers selling to both sides in third world conflict and claiming they are ethically above the killing.

You claim intellectual curiosity, but you peddle intellectual dishonesty.

Thank you, btw. I left HN months ago, and today come back to see exactly the pathetic hypocrisy that turned me off in the first place. Shit like this makes me be ashamed to be part of the tech community.

Sure, let's hide from the real world and pretend it isn't happening.

Any management advice that consists of a one-size-fits-all approach is by definition bad advice.

Every member of my team is an individual, and they all deserve an individual approach. Also, I find this particular approach rather condescending, and assuming the employee in question needs handholding and psychotherapy.

In Western Europe, you'll especially get the latter. And be glad it doesn't result in an HR complaint. Or at least a permanent distrust of that creepy invasive manager.

But the worse would be a truthful answer. As a manager, I know some of my people well enough to know what kind of painful shit that would dredge up. It's impossible, and even downright undesirable to have a relationship with all your team members in which it is okay to discuss such things.

> Hang out more on subreddits you don't agree with.

Hanging out with people you don't agree with is one thing. Hanging out with people that want you to stop existing is an entirely different matter.

If people are willing to (vote to) cross that line, time for talk and bridging divides is not just over, it's suicidally naive to think otherwise.

I could go Godwin here, but you get the point.

And somehow I have little sympathy for people who want to leave the US for political reasons but have a problem with countries where wealth is distributed more evenly.

Which by far doesn't solve all problems, and subsequently creates a ton of new problems.

How about just an appropriate workplace for the job, like 99% of all other jobs, even some of the lowest paid ones?

Have a bit of self respect and respect for your craft.

The lazy part here is your writing and argumentation, not the fucking swearing.